Famous Deaths on 11 May

Famous Deaths on 11 May

1304 - Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)
1610 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (b. 1552)
1672 - Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615)
1708 - Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646)
1723 - Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)
1777 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719)
1778 - William Pitt, the Elder, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)
1812 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762)
1848 - Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)
1849 - Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, French socialite (b. 1777)
1871 - John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (b. 1792)
1887 - Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802)
1891 - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
1916 - Max Reger, German composer (b. 1873)
1916 - Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
1920 - William Dean Howells, American writer (b. 1837)
1929 - Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (b. 1864)
1934 - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852)
1939 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
1955 - Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
1960 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874)
1963 - Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1970 - Johnny Hodges, American musician (b. 1906)
1973 - Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
1976 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)
1979 - Lester Flatt, American bluegrass musician (b. 1914)
1981 - Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)
1981 - Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945)
1985 - Chester Gould, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
1986 - Fritz Pollard, American football player (b. 1894)
1986 - Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (b. 1910)
1988 - Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912)
1994 - Timothy Carey, American actor (b. 1928)
1996 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
1996 - Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (b. 1904)
2000 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
2001 - Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952)
2002 - Renaude Lapointe, French Canadian journalist and senator (b. 1912)
2002 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905)
2003 - Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (b. 1945)
2004 - Mick Doyle, Irish rugby union footballer and coach
2004 - John Whitehead, American singer (McFadden & Whitehead) (b. 1949)
2005 - Michalis Genitsaris, Greek rebetiko singer and composer (b. 1917)
2006 - Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
2006 - Frankie Thomas, American actor (b. 1921)
2006 - Yossi Banai, Israeli singer (b. 1932)
2007 - Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa (b. 1913)
2007 - Bernard Gordon, blacklisted American author (b. 1918)
2008 - Dottie Rambo, American gospel singer (b. 1934)
2008 - John Rutsey, Canadian drummer, formerly for Canadian progressive rock band Rush (b.1953)
912 - Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (b. 866)